Environmental effects on fished lobsters and crabs

BS Green, C Gardner, JD Hochmuth… - Reviews in Fish Biology …, 2014 - Springer
The fisheries for crabs and lobsters (Reptantia, Decapoda) are shaped by environmental
variation through the distribution ecology, productivity or even their market traits such as …

Effects of marine protected areas on recruitment processes with special reference to Mediterranean littoral ecosystems

S Planes, R Galzin, AG Rubies, R Goñi… - Environmental …, 2000 - cambridge.org
Although site-attached fish can be expected to increase in abundance in marine protected
areas (MPAs), there is little known about recruitment effects. The present work reviews …

The brighter side of climate change: How local oceanography amplified a lobster boom in the Gulf of Maine

AG Goode, DC Brady, RS Steneck… - Global change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean warming can drive poleward shifts of commercially important species with potentially
significant economic impacts. Nowhere are those impacts greater than in the Gulf of Maine …

American lobster dynamics in a brave new ocean

RS Steneck, RA Wahle - Canadian Journal of Fisheries and …, 2013 - cdnsciencepub.com
Dynamic food webs and climate are changing lobster ecology and management. American
lobsters (Homarus americanus) evolved in the North Atlantic under conditions of intense …

Connectivity of lobster populations in the coastal Gulf of Maine: Part I: Circulation and larval transport potential

H Xue, L Incze, D Xu, N Wolff, N Pettigrew - Ecological modelling, 2008 - Elsevier
The remarkable increase of Homarus Americanus (lobster) abundance in recent years has
resulted in record landings throughout the states and provinces along the perimeter of the …

Revealing stock–recruitment relationships in lobsters and crabs: is experimental ecology the key?

RA Wahle - Fisheries Research, 2003 - Elsevier
As is true for many fish and invertebrate fisheries, stock–recruitment relationships remain
poorly understood for most commercially important species of lobsters and crabs. This paper …

Connectivity of lobster (Homarus americanus) populations in the coastal Gulf of Maine: part II. Coupled biophysical dynamics

L Incze, H Xue, N Wolff, D Xu, C Wilson… - Fisheries …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We used a coupled biophysical model to investigate larval transport and connectivity
patterns in the Gulf of Maine lobster (Homarus americanus) population. Biological 'particles' …

The impact of ocean warming on juvenile American lobster recruitment off southeastern Massachusetts

F Casey, JH Churchill, GW Cowles… - Fisheries …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
During the 1990s, coastal habitat off southeastern Massachusetts (SEMA) supported
commercially viable fisheries for American lobster (Homarus americanus). Over the past two …

The American lobster settlement index: history, lessons, and future of a long-term, transboundary monitoring collaborative

MC McManus, DC Brady, C Brown… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Understanding the processes that influence recruitment variability in marine populations has
been a long-standing challenge for resource management. Quantifying abundance at early …

Pre-and post-settlement factors as determinants of juvenile blue crab Callinectes sapidus abundance: results from the north-central Gulf of Mexico

KL Heck Jr, LD Coen, SG Morgan - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2001 - int-res.com
We estimated juvenile abundance and predation potential for young-of-the-year (YOY) blue
crabs Callinectes sapidus in upper-and lower-salinity marsh and submerged aquatic …